Elections 2019
[Source: BusinessTech by Africa Check.]
Africa Check’s Promise Tracker keeps tabs on election commitments by ruling parties. Read more
[Source: Business Day – Editorial.]
Seeing that SA’s deputy finance minister proudly describes himself as a Marxist, looking to one of Karl Marx’s most famous sayings to explain the rut that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration seemingly finds itself in, barely two months in, seems appropriate. Read more
[Source: Business Day by Tony Leon.]
One similarity between the ANC and the Conservatives is that a unrepresentative group picks the leader. Read more
[Source: Business Day by Gareth van Onselen.]
President Cyril Ramaphosa cuts a series of curious contradictions: a unionist and a businessman, a capitalist who believes in state centralism, a president no less, and yet a man who describes the ANC secretary-general as his “boss” — many other political paradoxes besides. Read more